List of Famous people born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Gunther Tiersch is a meteorologist, and a former competition rower and Olympic champion for West Germany.

Otto Paul Eberhard Peltzer was a German middle distance runner who set world records in the 1920s. Over the 800 m Peltzer improved Ted Meredith's long-standing record by 0.3 seconds to 1:51.6 min in London in July 1926. Over the 1000 m he set a world record of 2:25.8 in Paris in July 1927, and over 1500 m Peltzer broke Paavo Nurmi's world record (3:52.6) and set a new one at 3:51.0 in Berlin in September 1926. Peltzer was the only athlete to have held the 800 m and the 1500 m world records simultaneously, until Sebastian Coe matched the feat over fifty years later.

Hans Söhnker was a German film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1933 and 1980. He was born in Kiel, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany.

Serpil Midyatli is a German politician who has been serving as deputy leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD, and chairwoman of the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein since 2019.

Michael Meyer-Hermann is a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig and head of the department of Systems Immunology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research.

Aminata Touré is a German politician. She is a member of Alliance '90/The Greens, the German green party. She was elected on 29 June 2017, at the age of 25, to the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein and has been serving as vice-president of the Landtag since 28 August 2019.

Jennifer Oeser is a retired German heptathlete.

Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann was a German novelist who wrote works with social themes. From 1930 until 1933 he was president of the fine poetry division of the Prussian Academy of Arts. His numerous criticisms of the growth of fascism forced him to flee Germany after the Nazis came to power during 1933.

Frank Dostal was a German songwriter and music producer. In the late 1960s, he was a singer with the rock band The Rattles, who were consistently successful in Germany during the 1960s, and Wonderland. In the late 1970s, he was a co-writer for the internationally successful vocal duo Baccara, produced by Rolf Soja.

Kirsten Bruhn is a former German female Paralympic swimmer. She learnt to swim when she was three. She began competing at ten before an accident in 1991. She was hurt during a holiday motorcycle trip on the island of Kos leaving her partially paralysed. She has since become an expert in social insurance.